Master of Bioethics (MBE)

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he Master of Bioethics (MBE) is an interdisciplinary

degree offered by the Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. The MBE degree program gives students broad exposure to the full range of topics and issues in contemporary bioethics, drawing on the expertise of our distinguished faculty and fellows.

he Master of Science in Medical Ethics (MSME)

Minor in Bioethics

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he UPenn bioethics minor is designed to give students

a broad overview of the methods, core content areas and central ethical questions in the field of bioethics. The bioethics minor is a cross-school, interdisciplinary educational program. Students of any major are eligible for the bioethics minor.

About the Department

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he Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy

is based in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Under the direction of Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, the Department stands as one of the world's premier institutions of research and education in biomedical ethics and health policy. The Department's distinguished faculty produce and disseminate scholarship and conduct programs in medical, graduate and undergraduate education in biomedical ethics.

Events

On Thursday July 30, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia will host the launch of palliative care physician Dr. David Casarett’s new book Stoned: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana followed by an exciting panel debate
In Stoned, Dr. David Casarett sets out to find evidence of marijuana’s medical…

Recent Scholarship

A FEW months ago, we got a call from a former oncology professor of ours. He had developed an experimental precision diagnostic test that he thought would be able to determine which chemotherapies would be most effective against a patient’s cancer. He wanted to conduct a research trial to evaluate the effectiveness…

The first time you meet Robin, it’s easy to be misled by her fragile appearance. She’s in her 40s and painfully thin, and she grips her aluminum walker with hands that have been twisted by rheumatoid arthritis. But she’s both tough and resourceful, and she doesn’t give up easily.
I met…

In the past three decades, levels of and contributors to global health aid have increased at an unprecedented pace. Development assistance for health—financial contributions from public and private institutions to low- and middle-income countries to help improve health and health systems—nearly quintupled from 1990 to 2012 (from $5.7 billion to $28.1…